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New station with the WMC pack. KFYR. The station also switched their music to 615's High Velocity V.3.

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Retransmission disputes with Dish are not short.

Here is the set to 20/20.

That looks alright. Probably the most “modern” CBS News has looked in a very, very long time.

CBS Weekend News debuted its brand-new open yesterday. This should be a harbinger for what's to come with the rest of their news product and branding. New CBS Weekend News Open_Adriana.mp4 Also, they've integrated the new 'CBS' font into the chyron for "CBS Weekend News", replacing the old 'CBS'. However, they've only changed the "Weekend News" font to the new one in the open and not the chyron, so I don't think this integrates well.

KLAS 80s Newscast WABC Eyewitness Extra 4:30 1983 https://youtu.be/HB4GqrwPy1k Cablevision News 12 newscast 1983 KIMA 1991 Newscast https://youtu.be/gEg5-ES-ghA KDKA Eyewitness News 1987 WCAX 1993 Newscast WDIV 1983 News promos and news snippets.

I'm just glad they haven't begun to stack scoreboards in the vertical video space to solely appeal to social media users.

If that's the case, it's time to figure out how to differentiate graphics feeds for mobile app streaming vs. TV. This sucks.

I never like large graphics that hug the bottom of the screen with no gap. It feels so claustrophobic. Don't they basically modify the NBA score graphic almost every season now? It seems absurd.

American sports graphics continue to get bigger and bigger...

Major waste of space. If they just laid it out like the CBB one this actually wouldn't be too bad.

NewsCentral was before its time. Technology has changed so much that it's impossible to compare with what we can do today. We have meteorologists working from home covering severe weather. What's the difference if they're 30 miles from the station or 3000?

I'll summarize my thoughts from the Discord: I don't think this is an attempt at a new OTA weather channel or anything close to WeatherPlus. I think this is a vehicle to enable the hubbing of weather. The press release says "Fox Weather will feature local, regional and national updates... [Drawing] on more than 75 meteorologists across 17 stations and Fox News Channel’s news gathering teams." and makes no mention of affiliate stations. This is a project that involves only the O&O group. Rebrand all the local weather departments under the "Fox Weather" banner (Which would be similar to WeatherPlus) and now you have a unified brand that anyone can appear in front of. Do you really need weekend meteorologists at both WITI and WFLD? Or can you just "regionalize" these markets and do both out of one station from time to time? Oh no! A Tornado warning has been issued on a Sunday morning, and nobody's at the station! Not to worry, the Mothership in NYC has somebody on duty, and they were going to cover the Tornado warning anyways, so they might as well just simulcast Fox Weather on the local FOX O&O. I would not be the least bit surprised if midway through next year, they announce they're "streamlining" the O&O's and are taking advantage of "operational efficiencies" presented with a network of meteorologists and suddenly some stations lose their weekend/fill in mets. I've said for some time now that Weather and Sports were ripe for hubbing, and I think this might be the start of that.

So they also got a new set. I noticed they changed their website to the gfx pkg that they are currently using.

I noticed that KXII finally updated the weather graphics to Gray's new style to match the newscasts graphics after using the previous graphics since 2015.

It is. Can confirm WAVE has ditched their custom look of a year after the upgrade. Apparently there's still some customization with it (mainly weather it looks like), otherwise it's the standard Gray look. Don't think they're too happy about it.

Possibly the oldest footage of an Ed Hopkins-voiced FULL open on a station (the January one got cut off): (Go to 1:00:19) By this point WNGE had phased out the GE ID in prep for their call letter and ownership change a month later.

I am surprised that no one has mentioned the set of PBS Newshour so here it is. I have no idea who made these set for New York and Virgina.

WEWS's set from around 1984 did go through some changes as one other user mentioned earlier. The 1st change was the logo overhead. The second was the monitors area behind the anchor desk was replace with some kind of platform with lines on it. The third change was the removal of the Eyewitness News logo and the background became a Cleveland skyline. A WEWS logo has been added to the front of the desk and a color change took effect. Just compare them.

The clip that @bmasters1 was referring to is below, since the WAKR set looks like some that I've seen from that time period, namely for WTWV/WTVA 9 in Tupelo, MS, with that "in the round" desk and keyable oval backdrop. Probably a kit set? Back then, they had the financial backing and shared ownership of their radio partners (1590 AM and 97.5 FM WAEZ, which started as WAKR-FM and is now WONE-FM) The radio stations would be sold off several years later, and WAKC (a result of the 1590 calls going separately) would later be sold to ValueVision, then Paxson, who pulled the plug on news and their ABC affiliation. They covered Akron-Canton decently, but the way it was maligned under the ratings sealed its doom, since the overall ratings sucked, but was heavily viewed in the Akron/Canton area. This also affected its ability to secure programming and advertising, since it was at Cleveland rates.

Did you know that ABC's Chicago bureau on WNT (at least the first version) had more than we originally saw on television then? Here's a shot of an ABC News promo from 1980 talking about what ABC News had on then (this was on a recently-posted clip of the evening edition of WAKR Channel 23 when that was the ABC station of Akron/Canton, OH; it is now WVPX, and is the Ion Television O&O there); you'll see that, like the Washington bureau, there was a second header that had "ABC News Chicago" (in addition to the first one above the national map that we saw behind Max); you can see part of that second header in the top left of this screencap.

And yet another Scripps station with the 70's set....WEWS's clone WPTV. Even down to the logo animation. The only difference is the "Action News" and "Part of your Life" theme.

Found another station that also used the same set WMC used until 1986 and WEWS used until 1981. KTVK in Phoenix. Back then, it was owned by Ernest McFarland's group (later MAC America Communications), whose family and heirs would run the station until its sale to Belo in 1999. The intro and music is much like the ones used by several of the Outlet stations (WCMH, KSAT) and Storer's WAGA. I have to now wonder if the set was another designer outside of Scripps and the package used was syndicated at the time.

We all know about the 1985 WJW set. It went through changes. The 1st was a logo change. The 2nd was a logo change and a new color scheme. The 3rd was a name and logo change.

Well, if this clip is correct, then the old WEWS Scripps-issue set debuted in 1984.

WMC did the renovation in 1986. It was the last to get the standardized Scripps set:

Another standard-issue Scripps set, that existed at WMC and WEWS (until 1981) I originally thought it was a hand-me-down, but WMC used it back in 1980...while the WEWS version was still in use. Here's WMC using the 70's WEWS-like set all the way in 1985. If my estimations are correct, this set lasted until 1987 and the newer Scripps standard issue set? WEWS had the 1981 set in the middle between the two sets (the blue one with the jagged desk). Their 1985-ish set lasted a decade, with several paint jobs and a skyline added in 1990 (around the time they changed to NewsChannel 5) It briefly lasted under the Edd-Kalehoff, slanted "circle 5" revamp, and a new set was built that summer that only lasted until fall of 1998. And we see in the 1980 clip, the "false ceiling" effect. I know i've shown this before on the site, but here is a "behind-the-scenes" from WEWS showing it in action. https://youtu.be/BmwAiiDnDjg?t=103

I know this is a thread for sets, but.... Geez! Four weather people in the span of two years?! No wonder WKYC wasn’t going anywhere!

Add WFSB (It appears the only Post-Newsweek station not to use this set was WPLG)...

From the 518, news coverage of “Hurricane Bonnie,” featuring Neal Estano just before he ended his second tenure at WRGB, and WTEN before the beginning of their decade long run using the WJBK graphics:

Dan Rather leads CBS News' coverage of the start of the second Iraq War on March 19th, 2003 (courtesy btm0815ma): ABC News Nightline coverage from the same evening:

Some WRGB from after 9/11.

Still more from btm0815ma, including some 1981 newscasts that introduced a few variations of intros from the early Dan Rather era and the entire 1988 CBS Evening News that included the Dan Rather vs. George H W Bush showdown

Here ya go: a demo reel of 90s TVBD featuring some WAGT, WNWO and even some of their work at WBAL:

BTM0815MA has been on a tear when it comes to rare news uploads. This leads me to most of a **RARE** WITN newscast from December 31st, 1980. And if you are a Weather Channel viewer, you may recognize this former OCM (on-camera meteorologist).

Don't talk shit about Counterpoint.

I don't have a lower third example, but I do have a promo tease with Don Strickland that has that text on the top, which is the same size as the lower thirds. This is from family VHS tapes, it's not on YouTube anywhere. I do have a recording of Good Morning America that includes news cut-ins that show both the huge lower thirds and the set with the same text branding. I need to digitize them; these tapes are all at my parents' house in Pahrump.

This topic reminds me of a great book I found in my office when I took over as Art Director at a station on the West Coast -- it was from the Broadcast Design Association, dated June 1980. It listed photos and construction information on some local news sets built around that time. I've been meaning to scan this book in to share it with you guys, I know you'd find it interesting. A lot of sets back then were actually designed and fabricated in-house. Forgive the quality of these photos I snapped with my phone from the book - need to go scrounge up a scanner: Here's a list of all the sets included in the book:

All the PNS stations except WPLG used the same set during the mid 1980s. The same set design was used by WSB and WVEC around the same time, plus WTVF circa early 1990s.

It's to make it easier for people watching on mobile devices to be able to read the graphics better. Smaller screens need bigger graphics.